# OK, this lazy AI image generation is getting ridiculous **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [May 6, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194 "2024-05-06T18:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/1 "2024-05-06T18:41:39Z")
Why is there an ear growing from this gutter? [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/zYTJZZI.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/zYTJZZI) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/2 "2024-05-06T18:43:10Z")
Gives new meaning to “eavesdropping.” ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/3 "2024-05-06T18:44:07Z")
What’s really bugging me is the downspout coming out of the soffit instead of the eavestrough. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/4 "2024-05-06T18:45:00Z")
LOL, I didn’t even notice that! Which is the point, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/5 "2024-05-06T19:22:55Z")
Plus, the Porn is really, really off-putting. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/6 "2024-05-06T20:24:14Z")
That’s not a downspout, that’s the squirrel access tunnel for your attic ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/7 "2024-05-06T20:30:50Z")
The fascinating thing with a lot of the AI we see out there is that obviously people are not stopping have someone look at the generated image who _knows what looks right_ before putting it up. (Or else they ran out of their free-sample runtime and just went ahead with what they had) Because, I mean, whoever coded the AI reasonably _expected_ someone would look at it and if unsatisfactory reprompt and iterate as needed. (And really… AI graphics seem to be having a beast of a time with nailing down how many fingers and thumbs people have and which way they bend and how right and left hand are different.) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/8 "2024-05-06T20:42:01Z")
Calling whatever this LLM stuff is ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is really misleading, because it clearly has zero actual intelligence. Perhaps a label like ‘Algorithmic Generation’ or something would be less misleading. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/9 "2024-05-07T04:47:16Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Calling whatever this LLM stuff is ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is really misleading, because it clearly has zero actual intelligence. LLM stands for “large language model”, which is something that an image generator isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/10 "2024-05-07T05:18:46Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > The fascinating thing with a lot of the AI we see out there is that obviously people are not stopping have someone look at the generated image who _knows what looks right_ before putting it up. (Or else they ran out of their free-sample runtime and just went ahead with what they had) If someone actually _looked at it,_ it would not be computer-generated spam, would it? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/11 "2024-05-07T05:30:34Z")
Here’s the thing though…it’s free. That trumps almost all other considerations. You can certainly pay for stock photos but few want to. This is a huge concern among those who make a living producing stock photos. Their livelihood is probably over now. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-lazy-ai-image-generation-is-getting-ridiculous/1001194/12 "2024-05-07T14:28:11Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Calling whatever this LLM stuff is ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is really misleading, because it clearly has zero actual intelligence. Lots of A, but no I. I find this fascinating. Computer generated span, untouched by human hands, attached to webpages by bots, being ignored by most, adblocked by the rest. In my dystopian future story I would film, survivors keep getting spam email.